Sreya Sen
University of Calcutta, South and Southeast Asian Studies, Department Member
I was featured in the official blog of the India China Institute, The New School, New York, for my research on refugee legislation in India. I had previously been a research student fellow with the ICI.
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India is not a signatory to the 1951 UN Convention on Refugees or it's Protocol of 1967. There is also no uniform national legislation that caters to the well being of refugees in India. Policies adopted for refugee welfare in India are... more
India is not a signatory to the 1951 UN Convention on Refugees or it's Protocol of 1967. There is also no uniform national legislation that caters to the well being of refugees in India. Policies adopted for refugee welfare in India are usually ad-hoc in nature, their implementation depending entirely on the whims and fancies of the political parties in power.